Flickr: Photo By SarahMcDLast week surgeons in London successfully separated four-month-old conjoined twins after a 14-hour operation at the Great Ormond Street Hospital.

The two boys, Hassan and Hussein Benhaffaf, were born in December joined at the chest, but reportedly shared no major organs.

Photo By: Chandra LanierRecently, Bob McDonnell, the governor of Virginia issued a proclamation marking April as Confederate History Month. That decision sparked a flurry of media coverage and outrage and it was viewed as disrespectful to African Americans.

I'm all about celebrating history. And can even stomach the parts that I don't like. But it always surprises and disheartens me to see people make light of nearly 400 years of systemic oppression.  

Even worse, a few years ago, I found myself in the middle of my own Confederate brouhaha over a field day event at my daughter's school, of all places.

Photo by Chandra Lanier

Lately, I've been feeling like some sort of fertility fossil. A few weeks ago, I was thumbing through a magazine while waiting in the doctor's office, and I came across an ad looking for women to sell their eggs.

Hey, we're in a recession and almost all money making ideas are up for consideration. I have no plans on using any more of my eggs, but before I could even snap myself back to reality, there it was it large bold print: Only women under age 35. What? My eggs were no good? I couldn't believe it.